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    Reason.com: Orphan rug is likely to remain orphaned

    14:43 01/03/2014 >> SOCIETY


    Below, we present an article entitled "The Orphaned Rug," published in
    Reason.com.
    http://reason.com/archives/2014/02/28/the-orphaned-rug

    In 1925, a group of orphans who had lost their parents to Turkey's
    genocide of Armenians presented this ceremonial rug to President
    Calvin Coolidge. Despite the exertions of many activists and
    historians, the rug has been kept away from public view since the
    mid-1990s.

    Armenian Americans have long suspected that the rug was warehoused
    because the government of NATO ally Turkey does not want to see or
    read any official-sounding communication that even broaches the
    g-word. So when the publishers of a slim new volume titled President
    Calvin Coolidge and the Armenian Orphan Rug asked the White House to
    release the Ghazir artifact for a private book party in December, the
    terse response was, "We regret that it is not possible to loan it out
    at this time."

    Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) responded by planning a historically
    appropriate event that he hoped even the White House couldn't refuse.
    But Schiff's initiative probably will end up in the same place as the
    annual congressional drive to get the president to use the word
    genocide on Armenian Remembrance Day (April 24): nowhere. As long as
    Washington feels it has foreign policy needs that only Turkey can
    supply, the orphan rug is likely to remain orphaned.

    http://www.panorama.am/en/society/2014/03/01/reason/


    From: Baghdasarian
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